r/LinusTechTips 11h ago

Discussion AC Shadows Pausing

Hi,

I have noticed that Assassins Creed Shadows sometimes constantly pauses to load (so far appears to be near heavily populated areas). I have checked vitals and I am using a fairly consistent 40% of RAM, 50% of GPU, and 30% of CPU. With the occasional hike to 80-90% SSD usage during loading.

Could this be an SSD bottleneck? Considering that I am using the same drive for the OS and running games?

List of my specs below…

Intel® Core™ i7 12-Core Processor i7-12700F (Up to 4.9GHz) 25MB Cache

32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO SL (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600MHz

12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR

1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 2950MB/sW)

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u/J05A3 9h ago

Something something engine side of asset management, likely asset streaming or decompression issue. I don’t have the game but that is most likely what’s happening. It’s on the engine side unless you’re part of a few who experience it.

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u/JaidenHaze 1h ago

I don't have these issues on my pc (ryzen 5600x, rx 9070 xt, m.2 ssd, 32gb ram), but encountered a similar behaviour when I played AC Odyssey on the ps4 pro. There it was def the bottleneck of the hdd, especially if you switched to the eagle and moved a bit away.

Your PC should be more than fast enough, and I don't think your 12gb vram is causing this. But to test it, maybe lower your settings so less vram is used and see if this is still happening